Counterweight

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

A counterweight is a weight that, by applying an opposite force, provides balance and stability of a mechanical system. The purpose of a counterweight is to make lifting the load faster and more efficient, which saves energy and causes less wear and tear on the lifting machine.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Counterweight”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Marcin Wichary from San Francisco, U.S.A., CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.